A DISSATISFIED CHICKEN.

There was a little chicken that was shut up in a shell,

He thought to himself, “I’m sure I cannot tell

What I am walled in here for—a shocking coop I find,

Unfitted for a chicken with an enterprising mind.”

He went out in the barnyard one lovely morn in May,

Each hen he found spring-cleaning in the only proper way;

“This yard is much too narrow—a shocking coop I find,